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PATENTBD AUG. 11', 1903.

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UNITED STATES ISAAC 0. BAxT -R, 0F A'FTON, IOWA.

Patented August 11, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

BROOM-CORN HARVESTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 735,696, dated August 11, 1903.

Application filed August 5; 1901.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISAAC O. BAXTER, re-

siding at Afton, in the county of Union and State of Iowa, have invented certain useful Improvements in Broo m- Corn Harvesters;

ably and 'adjustably secured to any ordinary, farm-wagon and be carried through the fieldto cut the broom-corn a suitable distance below the brush thereof.

In the accompanying drawings I have shown in Figure 1 a top View of my broomcorn harvester, while Fig.2 shows a side elevation of same, disclosing my harvester as secured to an ordinary farm-wagon, as shown in dotted lines.

My invention embodies a board or platform A, to which are secured the standards E, which'are held by means of the brace-bars F. These bars F are secured by meansof the bolts 1 1, as shown in Fig. 1. the top of these standards E are the bearings 2, secured thereto by means of the bolts 3, and mounted to revolve within these bearings 2 2 is an ordinary shaft 4, provided with \arms 5, to which are secured the bars 6, to

form a reel situated a suitable distance above platform A. To one end of this shaft 4 I socure an ordinary sprocket-chain wheel 7, over which passes a sprocket-chain 8, which chain in turn works over a sprocket 9, as is shown more clearly in Fig. 1.

It will be noticed that the platform A is of a length approximately twice the width of the wagon-body X, as shown in dotted lines, and

that the reelis positioned upon the portion extending beyond the wagon-box.

The platform A is secured to any ordinary wagon-box, as X, by means of suitable bolts Secured'to $erial No. "70,988. (No model.)

Ward upon the wagon-box and is removably secured thereto. At a suitable point I provide this platform A with a duplex bearing 12, secured-by means of the bolts a,through whichbearing passes and extends the shaft 10, which shaft is provided with the collar 17 and is further supported within the bearing 11, secured by means of the bolts 19, as shown.

'At one end this shaft 10 is provided with a chain-sprocket 26, at the other end with the chain-sprocket 9, the latter engaged by the chain 8, as shown. A stub-bearing c is socured to the bearing 12, and within this stubbearing 0' is held the stub-shaft 13, as shown.

The shaft 10 is prevented from being lat e rally displaced by means of the collar 17 and bevel-gear 22, while the stub-shaft 13 is prevented from being laterally displaced by means of the collar 16 and bevel-gear 21.

Secured to the shaft 13 is a crank-arm 18,

tends a pitman 20, in turn secured to the pin 23, fastened to the end 24=of the cutter-bar 25, forming a portion of the sickle 30, as is usual in mowing-machines,"the sickle being held by means of sickle-guards, as is usual in the art. As the pitman is actuated the sicklebar is operated. This is accomplished in driving the main shaft 10 by means of a chain 27, passing over the sprocket 26, and this chain 27 passes over asprocket 28, fastened to one of the vehicle-wheels, as is shown in the drawings.

In moving a vehicle provided with this harvester forward theshaft 10 is actuated so that the reel is revolved to depress and-carry the stalks against the sickle-bar andthrow them backward, where they are grasped and collected by operators standing within the vehicle. p I i The device is noticeable because ofit's simplicity.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent, is-

In a harvester of the class described, the

to which is secured a pin 19, from which excombination with a platform, securing-bolts depending therefrom, and a clamping-bar engagedby said bolts to secure the harvester to a vehicle-body, the length of said platform being greater than the width of the vehiclebody, whereby one end of the platform is caused to project beyond the side of the vehicle-body, of a driving-shaft arranged longitudinally of said platform, bearing-boxes carried by said platform and in which said driving-shaft is jonrnaled, one of said boxes also having a bearing extending at right angles to the bearing in which said drivingshaft is journaled, a stub-shaft journaled in said bearing and extending at right angles to the driving-shaft, beveled gears carried by the driving and stub shafts and engaging each other, a cutter carried by the end of the platform designed to project beyond the side of 

